The Family Expositor
Philip Doddridge (1702-1751) kept a Dissenting academy at Northampton and wrote the Family Expositor over more than twenty years, publishing it a volume at a time from 1739. It gives the New Testament in his own version, a running paraphrase that carries the sense forward in plain words, critical notes gathering what earlier interpreters had settled, and a short practical improvement closing each section. Doddridge arranges the Gospels as a harmony, so a section may draw on more than one evangelist at once; where it does, the parallel passages are named at the head of the section. It was the commentary the eighteenth-century English household actually read, and later writers quote it constantly. Public domain.
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New Testament 255 entries
Matthew
28 ent.
Mark
15 ent.
Luke
24 ent.
John
21 ent.
Acts
28 ent.
Romans
16 ent.
1 Corinthians
16 ent.
2 Corinthians
13 ent.
Galatians
6 ent.
Ephesians
6 ent.
Philippians
4 ent.
Colossians
3 ent.
1 Thessalonians
5 ent.
2 Thessalonians
3 ent.
1 Timothy
5 ent.
2 Timothy
4 ent.
Titus
3 ent.
Philemon
1 ent.
Hebrews
12 ent.
James
5 ent.
1 Peter
5 ent.
2 Peter
3 ent.
1 John
5 ent.
2 John
1 ent.
3 John
1 ent.
Jude
1 ent.
Revelation
21 ent.